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Giveaway Rules

The Master Race is generous. When we do giveaways we do it within the bounds of our subreddit and only for subreddit members. Feel free to give prizes as you see fit, but don't mandate subscriptions or other benefits. You can post about your channel or project, but don't make it a requirement to visit, comment or subscribe to an external place to enter a giveaway or to increase the likelihood of winning.

Even if you do a giveaway on the subreddit, you can not directly promote a specific giveaway happening elsewhere.

Users giving away physical items must provide photo proof of ownership (including their username and date) in the giveaway thread. Shipping fees must be entirely financed by the user doing the giveaway (limiting the winner's location is allowed).

No conditional (I will only giveaway if) giveaways. If you start it, someone must win it. You cannot delete your giveaway once you post it.

Giveaways shouldn't last an absurd amount of time, nor should they be absurdly difficult to enter or win.

Do not choose your giveaway winners based on the number of upvotes or downvotes they get.

Giveaways to benefit registered charities must be verified by moderators. All other requests for donations (monetary or otherwise) are not allowed as per rule #8.

Only one entry per user to any giveaway unless otherwise stated by the giveaway poster.

Under special circumstances, we allow giveaways to require users to visit a page outside the subreddit, but that must conform to our outside giveaway guidelines.

First place wins ONE game of their choice. Second place picks from the remaining list, and so on. If there are particularly impressive entries, I will offer consolation prizes (of which I have several stored up). Although if there aren't many entries, I may give away multiple games to a single winner.

How to enter:

Since I'm giving away RPGs, I figured this should be a contest of creative storytelling. This is a text adventure maker. Let's see who can make something compelling with it! It's extremely easy to use, and if you struggle with it at all, there are a lot of online tutorials. Post your finished text adventures, and I'll pick a winner based on creativity and enjoyment. If you don't want to enter, check out some of the sweet text adventures and maybe sway my mind with the popular vote. :)

Have fun guys! I can't wait to see all your creative ideas!

I'm trying to make myself known for creative giveaways here, so suggestions are welcome for ideas for my next giveaway.

Thanks for being such an awesome community, have a great day folks!

EDIT: These are Steam games in my inventory, I'll PM the winners to add me on Steam when the giveaway is over.

EDIT 2: A lot of people are asking for when the deadline is, I hadn't set one because I wanted to see what type of response there would be, so I'll leave it pretty open ended. When it gets close, (like in a week) I'll probably ask how many people are still working on their entries so you'll have a chance to ask for an extension. :P

EDIT 3: Someone suggested using Twine. Looks like more people are familiar with it. Do it! :D

If the prizes aren't worth the work to you, no biggie, it's more about encouraging people to write and express themselves creatively. It's fun to have incentive, but I think that most people who are entering are doing so because they truly enjoy creative writing and interested in basic game-design. :)

Lolwat, if you were interested in buying these games you would buy now since you have the chance, not after the sale. If you don't it means you aren't that interested, so you wouldn't put the work for op's hefty request either. Finally, I am Setsuna and New Vegas ultimate aren't 50 even at full price, as you claim. Go to bed.

is that what people say these days, go to bed when they are wrong? if it was worth at the sale price you wouldn't be wasting your time writing an essay of a story you dont want to write which again is why you base it off the regular price.

EDIT 2: A lot of people are asking for when the deadline is, I hadn't set one because I wanted to see what type of response there would be, so I'll leave it pretty open ended. When it gets close, (like in a week) I'll probably ask how many people are still working on their entries so you'll have a chance to ask for an extension. :P

Yo, really late entry so sorry about that, these things take longer than expected, even when it's a short, shitty one. I used to do these for fun, so thanks for giving me the idea to do so again OP, and it's been a great stress buster for my college essays.

Damn, that really hit home, if you get what I mean. Really enjoyed the writing style. Didn't get to read through every path, only got to two endings (I assume there are more?), but I'll definitely get back and finish every path on this one.

Eh not too many, I probably should've included a few more dead ends/failstates, they all pretty much have an option to go back to the last one, I hadn't realized the software included a back button automatically, so I could've thrown in a few others, too. There's only one proper ending anyway for the users of this sub <3

This one was really enjoyable - a tad bit short though. Got really into that love path and was sad it ended so quickly. Haha, it was still a great read. Also, I like the extremely subtle hints about NMS. Almost missed those.

Didn't get through all of it yet, but I quickly got attached to the characters. Quite dialogue heavy, which helps give the people in this story more personality from the way they talk, which is cool. Definitely gonna come and finish this one when I get the time.

A little quirk of mine was that some of the stuff seemed a little bit too unbelievable - but that did not disturb the flow of the story at all, I just rolled with it.

EDIT 2: A lot of people are asking for when the deadline is, I hadn't set one because I wanted to see what type of response there would be, so I'll leave it pretty open ended. When it gets close, (like in a week) I'll probably ask how many people are still working on their entries so you'll have a chance to ask for an extension. :P

Omgomgomg so pumped to do this. I will do a branching, hilarious story, if it's okay with you? I'll check in 2 days to see if I am done. Ugh, I should be doing uni homework instead. Totally worth it though.

EDIT 2: A lot of people are asking for when the deadline is, I hadn't set one because I wanted to see what type of response there would be, so I'll leave it pretty open ended. When it gets close, (like in a week) I'll probably ask how many people are still working on their entries so you'll have a chance to ask for an extension. :P

So my submission is ready but the game goes quicker than I expected. It took me 3 days, two of which i didnt even sleep. three hours of two of those days were taken up by tutoring.
I spent so much time adding little details and trying to fix bugs and make things better. So make sure to explore every option.

Thanks for the giveaway, OP! Really love the creativity you allow and the motivation is what I really needed to finally start a project. While it is not done yet, I hope to continue it even after the giveaway is over.

If you read through it, make sure to take a bit of your time off, as it's quite a read. (6767 words as of right now - should have written 202 more words...) There are "author's notes" available on the title screen. Basically just some statistics and spoilers about what I plan on implementing and the progress done until now - skip that and go straight to the story, is my suggestion. You can read the notes afterwards.

Have fun reading and if anyone is interested, send me a message and I'll keep you updated once I finish another big chunk of story.

Just in case you're planning on closing the giveaway, please please please don't ! It took me lot of time to figure out how to use Quest (my logic.exe stopped working and had to be restarted several times using cigarettes and a night walk lol)

Now I'm very close to finishing it, so just wait for a while, thanks ;)

EDIT : Here's mine -> Then who did it ?. Currently fixing grammar errors and maps. If I find time, then I'll add soundtrack too :P

And thank you so much for this amazing giveaway, I've been working hard for this story, reading up on how drowning works etc. Then figuring out the software was a massive task because I'm not very good with softwares, I'm no good at all actually lol. I stayed home, and worked on this for 8 straight days and missed two weddings so it'd totally suck if I don't win..but you're the judge and so I hope to see more such amazing and creative giveaways in the future ! :)

I'm probably not going to have enough time to make something with this before the deadline (got a lot of tests coming up... also got to consider that my craptop will definitely not be able to play any of these games) but, holy crap, THIS IS WHAT I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR ALL THIS TIME! My artistic skills leave something to be desired, I can't compose anything, and I know nothing about programming, but I think I can write pretty damn well and I've wanted to make a game for so long. Ren'Py seems like it'd be okay too, but I need art for VNs, which I certainly can't provide... Well, at any rate, thanks so much for introducing me to this awesome thing!

EDIT 2: A lot of people are asking for when the deadline is, I hadn't set one because I wanted to see what type of response there would be, so I'll leave it pretty open ended. When it gets close, (like in a week) I'll probably ask how many people are still working on their entries so you'll have a chance to ask for an extension. :P

I suppose I'll have more time to do this than I thought then... still don't know if I should though... I want all of these games so badly, but if I actually do win any of them they're just gonna be sitting in my library collecting dust until I can get a better computer (that's gonna be in... 10 years if ever...). Sigh, the woes of an utterly poor person...

Well, at any rate, good luck to everyone who does enter the giveaway! Give it your best effort, everyone!

lol, the 'sob story' was my giveaway too. I didn't mean for it to turn into that, but I still think it's fun to tell a story about your life, and I wanted to let people know that their stories are important, even to strangers. ;)

Regardless, as I've mentioned several times now, I'm looking for more interesting giveaway suggestions, the sooner I get some good ideas, the most frequently I will do bigger giveaways. :)

Fuck off kid, I didn't enter the contest and have nothing to gain, I just made a remark on how Fallout 4 wasnt really a good RPG then this kind man asked a question and I answered. No need to be a dick.

I don't like 'pick a number' giveaways because they seem too random, I want it to be an actual competition. Also, once you try it, you'll find it may be fun making a story, and a good story/game doesn't have to be long.

If it's not for you though, it's not for you. I do other types of giveaways and I'm open to suggestions for different creative methods for giveaways. :)

I would like to say that these games are worth writing a paragraph or two on a story so here I will try
Once upon a time there was a sneaky man named Sean Murray who created this amazing game and I got my friend to buy. His game "no mans sky." I could not buy it but I got my friend on the hype train and he bought it when it went on pc. My friend has about 4 hours in the game and I've always felt like a piece of shit about it and would like to repay him with an rpg he plays a lot of them and I have a feeling he was planning on getting the whicher 3 (he loved skyrim) but you know I messed up anyways he rlly nice about it and I know it probably annoys him on the inside sooo yeahhhh
Also my friend bought it on ps4 (because hype) and couldn't wait 4 days to get it on pc so instead he gets terrible frames
So here's the prompt
Sean Murray has a plan. When Sean left his small time developer job to start a video game company he knew how to leave his mark on the world and how to leave a legacy. The only thing he didn't think of was "what if I fuck up." After that he was ambitious, taking the gaming community by storm so determined he didn't check if the game was fun or not.
I spelt witcher wrong my friend pointed that out when I showed him the giveaway

Why? He is being generous, and has every right to ask for people to make text adventures to enter. Its his giveaway and his games, we should be happy we have a chance to win these AAA games (well 3 of them) but still, the OP has every right to do anything here.